Fifteen orchestras she said
Fifteen orchestras, she said
in hell
the testament of a cellist, saved by her art
still, eighties years on, surviving
the beauty of a Christmas rose, white hellebore
in rocky winter bed
or convolvulus on a bombsite
truth and beauty intertwined, prevailing
life saved in the evil, the squalor
in hell.
27th January 2025 Hounoux . In honour of Anita Lasker.
Such emotional viewing and listening on bbc coverage and your poem a tribute to one of those amazing musician survivors still with us to share the truths. One sharing the guilt of playing to eat when all around others starved. Jude x
ReplyDeleteSuch a powerful and very very emotional programme as you say Jude.
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